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Marie-Therese Meye received the CDSS teaching award 2023. The award honors excellent teaching. Congratulations, Marie!

Ye June Jung will be joining our team as a visiting PhD student. June is a PhD candidate at the University of California San Diego and her research focuses on international and domestic institutions, trade, human rights, linkage politics and the European Union. Welcome to the team, June!

Marie-Therese Meye’s paper „The bridge to violence – Mapping and understanding conflict-related violence in postwar Mitrovica“ has been published in the Journal of Peace Research.  Together with her co-authors Emma Elfversson and Ivan Gusic, they advance our understanding of where, how, and why ...

On March 7, 2023 Sabine Carey participated in a roundtable on the war in the Ukraine, organized by the University of Mannheim. The panel discussion was moderated by Thomas Fetzer (Vice President for Strategic Planning, Internationalization and Equal Opportunity) and included, besides Sabine Carey, ...

We are very happy to have Dr. Alina Greiner as a Post-Doctoral Researcher on our team. In her research, Alina investigates micro-level dynamics and consequences of civil war. In particular, her research focuses on gendered dimensions of armed conflict, unobtrusive measurement of violence, and ...

Sabine Carey is presenting a joint project with Anita Gohdes and Neil Mitchell at the 6th International Conference on the Political Economy of Democracy and Dictatorship (PEDD) at the University of Münster, 23–25 February 2023. This project asks whether auxiliary armed forces help leaders stay in ...

Christoph Steinert will leave our Chair and begin an International Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of St. Gallen on March 1. In his fellowship research project, he will investigate the use and effectiveness of the human rights complaint mechanisms of the United Nations. He will collaborate ...

CONGRATULATIONS to Felix Olsowski, who passed his viva with flying colours for his doctoral dissertation “Judicial independence in illiberal regimes” on 17 January 2023! In his master piece (with impressive new data on the Philippines!), he shows how leaders in illiberal regimes strategically ...

Sabine Carey will again hold an informal zoom session for women who are potentially considering pursuing a PhD in political science. The goals of this session are: to provide you with some basic information about the format of PhD programmes/positions (primarily in Europe) to provide a save ...

Sabine Carey is organising a new round of her Publication Support Series. The first one started in April 2021 and connected a fantastic group of women broadly in peace and conflict research. After this great experience she is issuing a call for a second instalment. This series is intended for ...